DNF at 22%. Neil Jordan has a fantastic and lyrical writing style but the story (or rather, lack thereof) didn't jive with me. It would have been okayDNF at 22%. Neil Jordan has a fantastic and lyrical writing style but the story (or rather, lack thereof) didn't jive with me. It would have been okay if the characters were strong, but at 22% there were no characters I cared about, sympathized with or related to. With no plot in sight, I'm okay with marking it DNF....more

I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The Global Time Lines were interesting and it was obvious the author put a lot of thought into how theI didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The Global Time Lines were interesting and it was obvious the author put a lot of thought into how they would work and how time travel would work, but he fell short in a lot of other important areas, such as character development. All of them fell flat to me. Dialogue was often cheesy. The writing style is just okay.

Over all, the novel is just okay. You're not missing anything by skipping it....more

I agree mostly with Sandy from below. I think this is an earlier, unfinished copy.

However, I couldn't get intoI got this through Goodreads Giveaways.

I agree mostly with Sandy from below. I think this is an earlier, unfinished copy.

However, I couldn't get into it. Past 60 pages, and I still didn't connect or identify with Jeremy, and there was no plot yet. I spent the majority of the time skimming pages until I realized, I should just stop.

The writing isn't bad. It's probably one of those situations where it's really the book for you, or it really isn't.

I kind of felt like all he did was combine the most disturbing things he could think of into as few pages as possible for the shock factor ratherMeh.

I kind of felt like all he did was combine the most disturbing things he could think of into as few pages as possible for the shock factor rather than tell a story, and the effect was, of course, that nothing was all that appalling. It also was kind of sucky that he spent so little time actually getting into his own head--something I quite enjoy about memoirs--everything just seemed to be about adding this shock factor and this shock factor until nothing really mattered at all.

That being said, the book was readable and I got through it in merely two days. It wasn't terrible. It was pretty weird. But for me, it wasn't all that interesting....more